The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org. May 15, 2017 Mexican Activist for Families Whose Children Have Been Disappeared Is Murdered ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In northern Mexico, an activist for parents whose children have gone missing was assassinated by armed gunmen on Wednesday-Mother's Day in Mexico. Miriam Rodríguez was the director of the San Fernando Collective of Missing People. Her own daughter, Karen, had gone missing in 2012. .